Originally Posted by URG8RB8

Without any name calling, there is a lot to be said about a vendor who answers their phone, returns their calls, replies to their E-mails, and more often than not has everything in stock when you place the order, sends you a tracking number and invoice, and generally stand behind their products. I may carry around some pent up bad feelings but after trying to deal with some of the "other" vendors I now know why I made the decision I made back in the day. You just have to realize what everybody is "Good" at and what they are not so "Good" at. Some of these Hoity Toity so called elite vendors I have been contacting or trying to contact lately, really put it into perspective.

Originally Posted by jmj951

Not exactly. Perspectives need to be adjusted for different types of vendors. Some vendors primarily just work on custom builds, and then happen to sell some of the components they've designed for those builds to the rest of us (that don't contract them for these big builds) whenever they're able to do another run of those parts, which probably means they had another project that required one of those parts. They are not parts vendors in the traditional sense and we can't apply the same expectations.

Originally Posted by mwc951

That fuel rail looks nice Lart.
I've been looking for one...but who manufactured it?

Originally Posted by OmniGLH

CEP generally doesn't do much of anything for the general consumer anymore - pretty much all of his work is through race shops. I've been fortunate enough to get a couple pieces from him - they were all leftovers from projects or minimum orders he had to place in the past. He's a small operation so as Harry already mentioned, when he builds something, it's based on a "minimum order" to keep costs realistic. That or he does a one-off but then it's $$$$ (which race shops can afford to pay, the general guy cannot).